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This one turned out a bit creepier than what I expected :) Another piece that will be shown at the Alcove, in Atlanta on May 8th.
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8" x 10", Acrylic on Panel.
©2009 Jason Limón. www.limon-art.com
Tom Otterness (b. 1952 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American sculptor whose works adorn parks in New York---
most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station---and other cities around the world. His style is very cartoonish and cheerful, and the forms of his sculptures often consist of many blobs and pipes, giving them a humorous look. These sculptures depict, among other things, huge pennies, pudgy characters in business suits with moneybag heads, helmeted workers holding giant tools, and crocodiles crawling out from under sewer covers. The main theme of his work seems to be the struggle of the little man against the Capitalist machine in a difficult and strange city.
As primarily a public artist, Otterness' has shown popular exhibitions in locations across the United States, including New York City, Indianapolis, and Beverly Hills. His studio is located in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn.
His most recent exhibition of public sculpture in Grand Rapids, Michigan is his largest to date, featuring more than 40 works across two miles of the city's downtown area and at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park.
Otterness is best known to New Yorkers for his "Life Underground" series of sculptures, which are primarily located in the 14th St/8th Avenue subway station, which was commissioned in 2000 and fully installed by 2002.
Journalist Gary Indiana criticized Otterness for an independent work done while part of the East Village art scene in the mid-eighties called "Shot Dog Piece", in which Otterness allegedly "adopted a dog and then shot it to death for the fun of recording his infantile, sadistic depravity on film." When student Matthew Goad, a candidate for student government president at Wichita State University, learned of this act, Wichita State began questioning a USD$450,000 commission, which would cost an additional USD$150,000 for shipping, however, at present it looks as if the project continued may as planned. Otterness commented that "In 1977, I was a young artist having a very rough time. I had anger at myself and at the world. What I did was symbolic of how I was feeling internally and it is something I would never do today.
1952 Born in Wichita, Kansas
1970 Art Students League, New York
1973 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977 Member of Collaborative Projects, Inc., New York
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS (Post 1984)
2004 Untitled, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands Tornado of Ideas, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
2003 The Return of the Four-Leggeds, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, Spokane, WA; to be installed in 2003
2002 Life Underground, Metropolitan Transit Authority and Arts for Transit, 14th Street and 8th Avenue, New York, NY; to be installed 2002
2002 Untitled, Branchbrook Park Station, New Jersey Transit, Newark, NJ
2001 Suspended Mind, Carl Sagan Discovery Center, Montefiore Children's Hospital, Bronx, NY
2000 Time and Money, Hilton Hotel at Times Square, Forest City Ratner Corporation, NYC
1999 Rockman, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Minneapolis, MN
Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect), Martha Schwartz (Landscape Architect)
Feats of Strength, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
The Music Lesson, Music School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Calloway Johnson Moore & West (Architect)
Gold Rush, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Sacramento, CA
Nacht & Lewis/Hansen Lind Meyer (Architects)
1998 The Gates, Cleveland Public Library, in collaboration with Maya Lin (Artist) and Tan Lin (Poet) Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (Architect)
1997 Visionary, Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY Law of Nature, The Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse, General Services Administration, Portland, OR Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect)
1996 The Marriage of Real Estate and Money, Roosevelt Island, NY
1995 Dreamers Awake, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas Untitled, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California
The Roses Of The Woods by Daniel Arrhakis (2015)
There are roses that make remember us the beauty of a moment or the sweet memory of someone ...
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With the music : A Moment Lost - Enya
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Work made for the INCREDIBLE PLANTS - AWAKE CHALLENGE # 7 - (June 1 to 30 of 2015) :
www.flickr.com/groups/awakeartforacause/discuss/721576536...
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My last work for this week ! Thank you always for your visit and kind support ! : )
Wish you a great rest of the week and weekend dear friends ! I go try catching up these days ... Flickr don't help but i will try !
Shake the dreams from your hair my pretty child!
Rosa species leaves beginnings
quote from Jim Morrison
The other weekend I went on a bit of a whirlwind tour with my buddy Eric -- lots of driving and hiking with very little sleeping. Despite our jam-packed itinerary, I had initially thought of the Mesquite Dunes as my primary destination. I planned to walk around for several hours before sunset to find a solid comp, and I even rented a lens for the weekend specifically to shoot the dunes.
I knew it was going to be hot down there, but we started out that morning hiking for hours in the freezing cold at 12,000 feet, so some hopeful yet benighted part of me was actually looking forward to the warmer air on the valley floor. It wasn't long after descending into Stovepipe Wells that we found ourselves sitting under the gas station awning, seeking relief in a cold hefeweizen and thinking, "Why the heck are we down here right now?" I'm not built for heat, and I wasn't about to trudge through the sand in 100 degrees for two hours until the sun went down.
We decided to at least cruise over to the parking lot just to check out the dunes before reevaluating our plan to camp in the area. They weren't nearly as tracked-out as they get in the winter, but the heat still didn't deter a few crazy people from venturing out into the vast expanse of sand. Thankfully I had envisioned people in my photo, so I walked about 50 yards from the car, fired a few quick shots and decided to call it at that.
This shot could have probably benefited from waiting another half hour for the light to change while I found a better comp. We figured it best to use the remaining daylight to hoof it back up to the Alabama Hills, where sunrise opportunities and reasonable temperatures awaited. Being that I had barely managed to nab four hours of sleep in the two days prior, waiting and driving at night would have been just about as silly as hiking through the scorching desert.
Nonetheless, I'm still happy to get a half-way decent shot out of the stop that was even remotely close to what I originally had in mind!
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Part of the story "Time off" on lephotograph.blogspot.com/2010/02/time-off.html
I don't recall the name of this screech owl; she's new to the zoo. Because I arrive early in the morning, I found her wide awake, perhaps wondering if I had arrived with food for her. It was nice to see her eyes wide open.
Eastern screech owls are native to our area and they are not endangered.
What if you slept, and what if in your
sleep you dreamed?
And what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and
beautiful flower,
and what if when you awoke you had
the flower in your hand?
Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Fall awake!" rumi
no falling asleep for this long living living out loud in full colour beauty!
...extending the Christmas season here in Victoria...seen in a shop down the street from my home the other day.....it was still in perfect health! tho I have seen pointsettias growing in nature in Mexico and Hawaii (and yes California!) year round.....I usually associate them with December!
off to a busy day full of contract work and greeting card orders.....
see you on the flip side of a de'lish day full of hopes and dreams becoming reality!
Many times each day Skyline, Montana awakes with the sound of Thundering Prime Movers. The sound of steel wheels on steel rail echos off the mountain sides. A total of 8 large AC locomotives lift this coal load up the east slope of the Continental Divide. Day and Night, this is railroading on Mullan Pass. MRL BNSF
If I could throw this
Lifeless lifeline to the wind
Leave this heart of clay
See you walk, walk away
Into the night
And through the rain
Into the half-light
And through the flame
If I could through myself
Set your spirit free
I'd lead your heart away
See you break, break away
Into the light
And to the day
To let it go
And so to fade away
To let it go
And so fade away
I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake
Wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh, no, no, no
If you should ask then maybe they'd
Tell you what I would say
True colors fly in blue and black
Bruised silken sky and burning flag
Colors crash, collide in blood shot eyes
If I could, you know I would
If I could, I would
Let it go...
This desperation
Dislocation
Separation
Condemnation
Revelation
In temptation
Isolation
Desolation
Let it go
~U2
This song is about the desperation of heroin addiction, but it washed over me as I was editing this. The lyrics and emotional music really capture how I feel standing out in the open with the wind in my face and an indescribable scene before my eyes.
I've been trying to "define" my photography for a long time. I see such wonderful art here on flickr. Amazing works with such deep meaning. The photographer obviously had a concept in mind and set out to achieve it. It makes me feel so uncreative that I only shoot what is there. I don't "create" anything, I don't make "art". I don't set out ahead of time with some concept.
Lately, though, I've realized that what I do matters. There are masterpieces of art all around us all the time. Nature is the artist. But people just pass it by like it isn't even there. It is my mission to capture these stunning everyday, but overlooked, masterpieces and make people see what they are missing. I want to open eyes and open minds.
"you live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. the symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. the second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. that is all. it appears like an innocuous illness. monotony, boredom, death. millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. they work in offices. they drive a car. they picnic with their families. they raise children. and then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. some never awaken."
- anaïs nin, the diary of anaïs nin, vol. 1: 1931-1934
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